Here's a curious little one-eyed awakening from a prominent star in the corporate media universe. Will be interesting to see if Dobbs follows through with any of this. Anyone want to send him a copy of Griffin's "The 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions" for starters? - Ed.

Another faint sign of life from the mainstream media. CNN's Jack Cafferty reports on Pentagon deception and reads some interesting viewer responses. - Ed.

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Reported by Chrish
News Hounds
"We watch FOX so you don't have to."
August 7, 2006 - 48 comments

Sometimes it really does help to have the right enemies. FOX fulminations have even turned the head of this moderately liberal media watchdog blog. - Ed.

John Gibson jumped on it right away. His August 3 "My Word" rant dismissed alternative theories as garbage and attributed them to (what else?) hatred of Bush. He's a one-trick pony, John is - if you disagree, or question, or suspect the administration, it's all because of your emotional reactions to Bush.

By Justin Pope
The Associated Press
abcnews.go.com
August 6, 2006

Associated Press offers a decent beefy run on progress in the movement focusing on recent contributions by Scholars for 9/11 Truth. A few hours later Google News lists over 100 news outlets running the story. While we deeply wish such coverage concentrated more on the issues, in terms of visibility at least we are indeed grateful that editors are finally awakening to public interest in our story and that a major corner has been turned. - Ed.

These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall, over the protests of more than 60 state legislators. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University whose mainstream academic job has made him a hero to conspiracy theorists.

By Charles J. Hanley, AP
Chicago Sun Times
August 7, 2006

And you thought the 50% of Americans who never heard of WTC 7 was depressing. Welcome to yet another view of the-more-you-watch-the-less-you-know generation at work. - Ed.

Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?

Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag.

People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, said opinion analyst Steven Kull.

By Philip Shenon
New York Times
August 2, 2006

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Newly disclosed tapes offer evidence of the widespread confusion within the military as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were being carried out, further undermining claims by the Pentagon that it moved quickly to try to intercept and shoot down one or more of the hijacked jets.

When matched with the timeline of the attacks, the tapes make clear that information about the hijackings was slow to reach the military on Sept. 11 and that much of the information that did reach Air Force commanders was faulty. [[ Click "Read More" below for rest of lame riff...]]

by Thomas Hargrove, Scripps Howard News Service
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Wednesday, August 2, 2006

More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

The national survey of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be.

Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appears to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

By Gretchen Ruethling
The New York Times
August 1, 2006

MADISON, Wis., July 26 ? Sipping on a bottle of water and holding a book about the history and future of Islam, Kevin Barrett ticked off a few examples of what he saw as evidence that the Sept. 11 attacks had been an "inside job."

As children zoomed by on tricycles and shot basketballs at a community center near his home, Mr. Barrett, 47, described how some news orgainzations (the French daily newspaper Figaro and Radio France International, in fact) had reported that an agent from the Central Intelligence Agency visited with Osama bin Laden two months before the attacks. He also said fires could not have caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers at free-fall speed, as reported by the special Sept. 11 commission. "The 9/11 report will be universally reviled as a sham and a cover-up very soon," said Mr. Barrett, who has been a teacher's assistant or lecturer on Islam, African literature and other subjects at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1996. "The 9/11 commission has its conspiracy theory, and we have ours."